The 1900-09 Decade

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The 1900-09 Decade

• 4/5th Grade Social Studies
• Mary M. Silgals, MLIS

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SCETV Streamline Video

• What is strange about the photo on this movie
  clip?

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America at the Turn of the Century

• In 1900 horses were the main means of
  transportation in towns cars were a curiosity
• Less than 150 miles of paved road no trucks or
  buses
• John Philip Sousa Music the Music of America
• First motion picture The Great Train Robbery

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1900 Turn of the Century

• Stars and Stripes Forever
• Car parade in 1900

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Turn of the Century - 1900

• Eiffel Tower in Paris tallest building in the
  world

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President William McKinley 1897-1901

• Prosperity was the re-election pledge by
  President William McKinley Four more years of
  the full dinner pail. http//americanhistory.si.e
  du/lunchboxes/section1.htm
• Philippines War Guerillas fighting for
  independence Not supported by many Americans
• Republicans nominated Theodore Roosevelt for
  running mate

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Imperialism

• New territories Guam, Hawaii, Philippines,
  Puerto Rico http//www.bs-sports.co.jp/english/im
  ages/map_04.gif
• Democratic candidate was William Jennings Bryan
  He criticized Imperialism, the burning issue

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Friendship and Understanding between the
Americas

• Pan American Exhibit in Buffalo, NY

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Friendship and Understanding between the
Americas

• One of the advances in medical science on display
  at the Pan-American Exposition was the infant
  incubator. For ten cents admission, the curious
  could enter this imposing building and see
  premature infants who were cared for here during
  the exposition.

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Friendship and Understanding between the
Americas

• Latest developments in Agriculture, Forestry, and
  Transportation

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Pan-American Exhibition

• Sept 5, 1901 Presidents Day http//ublib.buffalo.
  edu/libraries/exhibits/panam/law/mckinley.html
• President McKinley was shot at a public
  reception dying a week later
• Leon Czolgosz
• Pronounced Cholgosh
• http//history1900s.about.com/od/1900s/qt/mckinley
  killed.htm

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President Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909

• 42 youngest President
• Vigorous outdoorsman
• Organizer of the Rough Riders
• http//www.bartleby.com/51/
• Fought trusts against big businesses oil and
  railroads
• More popular with the people than with
  politicians

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Turn of the Century Conflicts

• Miners go on strike
• President threatened use of
  federal troops for the first time
• People thought he could handle the fights between
  big business owners and the workers

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Foreign Policy

• Speak Softly and Carry A
  Big Stick
• Supported the navy
• Doubled in size
• Join the Navy
  and See the World

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Panama Canal

• Controversy over the taking of land for building
  the canal
• http//en.citizendium.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt
  Panama_Canal

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How We Lived

• Most people still lived on small farms
• Tractors revolution the way people lived
• Railroad lines still did not reach all areas
• Logging camps Rivers were the means of
  transportation
• Prospectors
• American West Indians on reservations
• Cattle ranching, rodeos and traveling west shows
• Buffalo Bill with Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull

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Prospectors
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Logging Camps

• http//www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/pasulliv/gallery
  /Loggers.htm

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Children at the turn of the century

• Description Child Laborers in Indiana Glass
  Works, Midnight, Indiana. 1908. Photographer,
  Lewis W. Hine

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Children at the turn of the century

• Description Child Laborer, Newberry, S.C. 1908.
  The overseer said apologetically, "She just
  happened in." She was working steadily .
  photographer, Lewis W. Hine

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Rural School

• Fred Hultstrand History in Pictures Collection,
  NDIRS-NDSU, Fargo.

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Farming Equipment

• 1908 Geiser Model "ZZ" Steam Engine
• F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collection, NDIRS-NDSU,
  Fargo.

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Rodeos Annie Oakley, Buffalo Bill and Sitting
Bull

• http//west.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/pager.php?id30

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Wish Books Sears and Montgomery Ward Catalogs

• Used in School to teach reading and arithmetic
• Buy anything from birth to death
• All merchandise guaranteed and paid by cash
• Free delivery
• Mail men were delivering billions of pieces of
  mail

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Sears and Roebuck Catalog

• Montgomery Ward was the competition
• 1900 Records 8.7 million in sales, but falls
  behind Sears Roebuck, which generates 10
  million.

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Population Distribution

• Description Percent of population in Cities
  having at least 2500 inhabitants, 1903.

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Change in the Cities

• New York City center of high society
• The 400 Mrs. Asters ballroom
• Wealthy wintered in Florida
• William Flagler built resort hotels

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Separate but Equal

• Jim Crow laws being passed
• Generations to reverse
• Booker T. Walker Up From Slavery
• George Carver
• Tuskegee Institute vocational school for blacks
• Hopeful signs for some black people

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Ellis Island

• Promised Land
• Terrifying ordeal process of entry
• Questions often immigrants did not understand
• Many settled in Manhattan 1/3rd immigrants
• Many languages from many countries

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Problems in the cities

• Streets not paved with gold
• Crowded city streets
• Hard working conditions
• Earthquakes
• (San Francisco 1906)
• Fires
• (Baltimore 1902)
• Broken Gas Lines
• Broken Electrical Wires
• Army
• pack mule relief when disasters

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John Muir

• National Parks doubled

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President William Taft 1909-1913

• Nominated by Roosevelt
• A Conservative
• 1909 Roosevelt in Africa to hunt
• Progressives were pleased with Taft's election.
  "Roosevelt has cut enough hay," they said "Taft
  is the man to put it into the barn."

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Entertainment

• Thomas Alva Edison
• Electricity
• Lightbulb
• Record Player
• Motion Picture Projector
• First movie 9 minutes The Great Train Robbery
  Edwin S. Porter first film editor

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The Great Train Robbery

• "The Great Train Robbery" (1903)
• In 1903, an employee of Thomas Edison's motion
  picture company produced a movie with a story. It
  was called "The Great Train Robbery." It told a
  simple story of a group of western criminals who
  steal money from a train. The movie was extremely
  popular. "The Great TrainRobbery" started the
  huge motion picture industry. http//emol.org/mov
  ies/greattrainrobbery/index.html

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Science and Technology

• Steel was the builder of the future
• Cars, skyscrapers, bridges
• 20-30-40 stories
• Flat Iron Building
• People catcher on trolleys
• Huge steel suspension bridges
• New York Subway first sectioned opened in 1904
  1 hour trip reduced to 10 minutes

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New York Subway Car
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Steel Suspension Bridge
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Flat Iron Building
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Trolleys
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Technology

• Panama Canal
• Trip Atlantic to Pacific Ocean 8,000 miles
  shorter
• 1907 Glenn Curtis motorcycle rider fastest man on
  earth
• 1909 Army bought its first plane from the
  Wright brothers.

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First Airplane Wright Brothers

• Wilbur and Orville Wright
• Made of bicycle parts
• Flight lasted 12.5 minutes

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Lifestyles

• Photograph albums Brownie Kodak for 1.00
• Electric trolleys
• replacing horses and carts
• 19008,000 cars
• Car builders Chrysler, Buick Ford
• End of decade200,000 cars
• Lives easier for children
• Movies, cars, subways, skyscrapers, and
  airplanes
• basketball, marbles

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Basketball

• 1891 the sport of basketball was born. Began
  popularity in 1900s
• Dr. James Naismith, Inventor of Basketball

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Marbles

• Playing Marbles

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The End!

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